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Volkswagen Brasilia
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Volkswagen Brasilia | |
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aka | Brasília |
Production | 1973-1982 (More than 950.000 units sold in Brazil) |
Class | Compact car |
Body Style | 2 doors hatchback |
Length | 4100mm |
Width | 1605mm |
Height | Height - type here |
Wheelbase | 2400mm |
Weight | 890kg |
Transmission | 4-speed manual transmissoin |
Engine | four-cylinder, boxer, air-cooled, rear engine, rear drive |
Power | 60 hp @ 4600 rpm 12 m.kgf @ 2.600 rpm |
Similar | {{{Similar}}} |
Designer | Marcio Piancastelli |
At September 1970, brazilian's Volkswagen president Rudolf Leiding, made a challenge for the company's major designers. He wanted to recriate the Beetle, in a brazilian way.
The Beetle, the Bus and the Karmann-Ghia were the only VW cars with air-cooled engines that made success at that time in Brazil. For Leiding, the new Volkswagen should be practical, economical and larger than the Beetle, using it's reliable engineering.
In three months, more than 40 projects were made, most of them with bold designs, with wide, inclined windshields. But the prototypes were expensive and VW was looking for a new cheap car, to compete with the brand new Chevette, from Chevrolet.
The name Brasilia is a tribute from Volkswagen to Brazil's capital: Brasília
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The 1974 Volkswagen Brasilia, with dual carburetors, could ran 10.4Km with one liter of gasoline.
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